I became a concubine in the palace and cured my master's hidden disease.

"No, I came here with money for food." When Old Thirteen said this, he immediately took out a purse from his sleeve and placed it on the tea table.

Old Thirteen's move was like cutting off the source of the problem, making the group of people who came to eat and drink for free immediately feel embarrassed.

Led by the crown prince, everyone stood up and said goodbye.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Prince Rui was inexplicably lively.

The Thirteenth Old Man touched his nose, looked up, and smiled triumphantly: "Ayan, Ayan, thank me very much!"

After saying this, he smiled and put the purse that he had just put on the tea table back into his sleeve. He held a large jar of pearl milk tea, shook his two short legs, and drank it slowly with a straw.

Lin Yan couldn't help but twitch her lips. Why did she feel that this little brat in front of her was the most cunning one among them?

But since you drank my pearl milk tea, you have to leave some money for me. Thinking of the poker cards, Lin Yan raised the corners of her mouth and smiled quietly.

"Ayan, come on, play snowballs with me!" Old Thirteen was drunk and finally asked Lin Yan to play games with him. Everyone played games with him in a proper manner, except Ayan, who could play with him.

Lin Yan was waiting for this moment: "I know a fun game that's much more fun than a snowball fight?"

"Oh! What game? If they are all games I have played before, I won't play it!" Old Thirteen said with a pout, shaking his short legs.

"I can guarantee that this is something you have never played before!" Lin Yan tempted with a smile.

"Really!" Old Thirteen immediately became interested and jumped up.

Lin Yan raised her eyebrows slyly and laughed. "I promise it will be fun and exciting."

"Then what are you hesitating about? Hurry up!" Old Thirteen was impatient.

"Wait! I'll ask the maids to bring the toys over."

Old Thirteen nodded!

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"What's so fun about these paper shells with numbers on them?" Old Thirteen looked at the playing cards brought by the maid, like a deflated ball, and asked in confusion.

"This is not ordinary paper, it is called playing cards, a total of 54 cards. I want you to use it to play a quilt game.

"It's not even as big as my palm, how can we play the quilt-covering game?" Old Thirteen picked up a playing card and placed it on his chest.

Lin Yan smiled, took it back, and rubbed it back and forth in her hands. This action immediately attracted the attention of Old Thirteen.

"Listen carefully!"

Old Thirteen nodded eagerly.

"This card has a pattern. It has numbers from one to thirteen. Take a look first. Each person holds a dozen of the cards in their hands and takes turns to draw a card and turn it over on the table.

Then count one, two, three, and four at the same time. If the number you report matches the turned-over card, immediately cover that card with your hand.

See who reacts faster, the slowest loses.

This kind of play is very exciting, do you dare to play it? Don’t cry if the back of your hand gets red from being slapped. "

"It sounds simple." Old Thirteen was indeed interested. It was just a matter of counting. He seemed to have a affinity with the numbers one to thirteen.

"It's absolutely super simple. Shouldn't there be some jackpot for winning or losing?" Lin Yan tempted.

"Hmm! What you said seems to be interesting..."

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"My hand!" Old Thirteen looked at his swollen hand and sniffed hard. "How can a woman be so strong? I must win back tomorrow."

Not only was the Thirteenth Old Master's pockets empty, but the backs of his hands were also red and swollen like pig's trotters. He was angry but unwilling to give up, so he pouted and ran back to the palace with his guards.

Old Thirteen was like this. Whenever he had time, he would sneak to the Rui Palace. When he left, his hands were red and swollen. He fought and failed again and again, but he kept fighting! The guards beside him shook their heads when they saw this.

Lin Yan was like a little fox, smiling as she touched her increasingly bulging purse, and was overjoyed. She killed people everywhere in the Rui Palace every day, and completely forgot about Zhao Yuan!

This continued until January 19. Old Thirteen hadn't come to the palace to see her for three days in a row, and Lin Yan realized something was wrong.

It seemed that Zhao Yuan had not written her a love letter for a while. The Rui Palace was filled with joy inside and outside, with big red lanterns hanging high and big and small happy characters pasted on the tree trunks.

The groom Zhao Yuan still hasn't come back.

"That's not right!" Lin Yan realized the problem. Although... but... she was no longer in the mood to have fun and lay listlessly on the couch.

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Concubine De paced back and forth in her bedroom anxiously. It was impossible to cancel the wedding, so she finally asked her personal maid to go to the imperial kitchen.

On the 20th day of the first lunar month, the eighth prince, Prince Heng, and the third prince, Prince Rui, came to marry at the same time.

The whole capital was in an uproar, with gossip flying everywhere.

The Eighth Prince decided to hold a grand banquet for three days and three nights. At irregular intervals, the butler led the servants to carry large baskets of copper coins and throw them to the crowd to celebrate.

A hundred-meter-long buffet was set up on the street outside the palace, where anyone who came to congratulate could sit down and eat and drink.

It was a lively and bustling place with huge crowds of people! The streets were completely deserted and people were rushing to get the wedding money.

At Prince Rui's Palace, the wedding was kept simple. Apart from setting off two strings of firecrackers and opening the main door, it was extremely shabby, even smaller than the scale of marrying a concubine.

It is no exaggeration to describe it as cold and deserted. The bride's escort wanted to carry the sedan back intact...

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Mu Xueli never dreamed that the husband she had carefully chosen would actually be a rooster?

She didn't know that Zhao Yuan had been out of contact years ago, and only the emperor and Concubine De knew this news. Considering that her son was destined to be a wife-killer, if an accident really happened to him, she would have to find him a wife in the end, right?

So they kept it a secret and announced to the public that Zhao Yuan had important matters to attend to and could not return, leaving everything to Concubine De.

This led to the scene where Concubine De asked her personal maid to go to the imperial kitchen.

Mu Xueli didn't want to get out of the sedan chair, but the matchmaker said to her across the sedan chair: "Girl, this is the royal family. If you regret it, your entire clan will be exterminated."

Mu Xueli trembled all over. How could this happen? I had never heard of Prince Rui disappearing in my previous life! He would be a widow after marrying into the family! That would be a loss.

The other three women in Prince Rui's Mansion were watching from afar, looking at each other in bewilderment. Usually, when a big red rooster appeared as a substitute for marriage, it meant that the man was seriously ill or had passed away.

Miao Yinhua ate melon seeds and spat disdainfully. "It's not as glorious as entering the mansion on your own!"

Xie Liuxu felt that it was meaningless, so he turned around and walked away with Xiao Cui.

Lin Yan did not move her feet, her brows were furrowed, she felt a little sympathy for Mu Xueli, but was more worried about Zhao Yuan. She looked up at the sky and prayed that he was safe.

With the help of the matchmaker, Mu Xueli kowtowed three times to the rooster in the hand of Zhai Zongguan... and was finally helped away with a loud shout of "Ceremony is over" from the ceremonial officer.

I always feel that Mu Xueli's back is very desolate. Lin Yan sighed and shook her head: "I am a concubine, but I am worried about someone else's wife. It's ridiculous. Zhao Yuan is very lucky. I think something has delayed him!"